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Zelenskyy calls Putin’s 9 May truce proposal a deceptive maneuver

The Ukrainian President urged an immediate, unconditional 30-day truce instead of waiting for May, emphasizing that preserving human life is more important than ceremonial events like military parades.

A municipal bus in Russia with a prominent pro-war propaganda message combining the Russian military invasion force's ID mark "Z" and a hashtag "#ProudForRussia" (Photo: gorod-812.ru)

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ISW: Russia expands “anti-Nazi” rhetoric beyond Ukraine to further militarize Russian society

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently accused the EU of promoting "neo-Nazi ideology" after EU officials recommended boycotting Russia's Victory Day Parade on 9 May as the Kremlin uses Soviet victory over Nazi Germany to justify current invasion.

byVira Kravchuk

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95 percent of Russians now say victory in 1945 was main event for Russia in the 20th century

Such views were more widely held among older Russians and less widely among younger ones, but, according to…

byPaul A. Goble

Muscovites celebrating May 9, the Day of Victory in the so-called Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, in 2019. Russia prefers to forget that it started the World War II on the German side in September 1939 by invading and partitioning Poland with Hitler's Germany. (Photo: dsnews.ua)

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Putin moving from ‘Great Victory’ to hostility to entire world – and young Russians are ready to follow him, Ilchenko says

Just as “Crimea is Ours” paled with time as a mobilizing tool, so too Vladimir Putin’s “Great Victory”…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainians gradually move away from Soviet stereotypes regarding World War II – poll

What is it now for Ukrainians, World War II, or the Great Patriotic War? Do they mark Victory…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Ukraine bans the St. George’s ribbon as a “symbol of Russian aggression”

On 16 May 2017, Ukrainian lawmakers banned the St.George’s ribbon, a controversial emblem of the Second World War…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Russia’s exported “Immortal Regiment” marches accused of being part of hybrid war against Ukraine

History of the “Immortal regiment” In 2012, Sergei Kolotovkin, Sergei Lapenkov, and Igor Dmitriev, Russian journalists from the…

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The Soviet foundations of Russia’s Great Patriotic War myth

The myth of May 9 The largest myth of the Great Patriotic War is the concept that shifts its…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor